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κακανδρία

First declension Noun; Feminine Transliteration:

Principal Part: κακανδρία

Structure: κακανδρι (Stem) + ᾱ (Ending)

Sense

  1. unmanliness

Declension

First declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • φροῦδοι δ’ ἄπληκτοι, τῇ Φρυγῶν κακανδρίᾳ πόλλ’ ἐγγελῶντεσ τῷ στρατηλάτῃ τ’ ἐμοί. (Euripides, Rhesus, episode, iambic 2:24)
  • ποῖον οὐχ ἐρεῖ κακὸν τὸν ἐκ δορὸσ γεγῶτα πολεμίου νόθον, τὸν δειλίᾳ προδόντα καὶ κακανδρίᾳ σέ, φίλτατ’ Αἰάσ, ἢ δόλοισιν, ὡσ τὰ σὰ κράτη θανόντοσ καὶ δόμουσ νέμοιμι σούσ. (Sophocles, Ajax, episode 1:13)

Synonyms

  1. unmanliness

Similar forms

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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